Lose Your Job and Lose Your Home! - That's Labour's latest plan

8.28.31am UTC (GMT +0000) Mon 25th Feb 2008

Claire Darke

Park Ward Liberal Democrat candidate Claire Darke has slammed Labour's latest housing suggestions. Labour Housing Minister, Caroline Flint has suggested tenants who become unemployed while living in council housing could find themselves chucked out onto the streets if they fail to meet certain strict conditions.

Claire Darke said "This sort of tough sounding rhetoric is a shallow attempt to mask the real problems that Labour has ignored for years. Caroline Flint is dreaming if she thinks an empty threat of eviction is going to get people back into long-term jobs. Training and support are what is needed, not a headline grabbing plan that will no doubt be quietly shelved in a few weeks."

Claire Darke went on to say "It is time to send a message to the unpopular Labour controlled Wolverhampton Council by voting for hard working, caring, socially minded Liberal Democrats instead of crazy Labour housing plans."